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This article discusses the claims that male [[circumcision]] reduces the incidence of STDs other than HIV/AIDS. For a discussion of the alleged claims made regarding HIV, see [[Circumcision and HIV]].
==Circumcision promotion==
Attitudes from the early days of opinion-based medicine that have long been disproved in the era of science-based medicine continue to influence thought today. [[Peter Charles Remondino]]'s 1891 book said:
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[[Abraham L. Wolbarst| Abraham Leo Wolbarst]] (1914), an ardent promoter of circumcision, published an opinion-based article that claimed without evidence that circumcision prevented "venereal disease" now known as sexually transmitted disease.
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